Network & Systems

Wish you could retrieve your voice mail messages from your e-mail or the web? With Desktop Messaging, now you can! Faculty and staff may request the service or learn more about it by going to http://lis.luther.edu/learn/desktopmessaging.

There will also be a demonstration in Borlaug on Monday, Nov. 9, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Reserve a spot at http://lis.luther.edu/learn/schedule or just drop in.

Information regarding sustainability, from LIS’ perspective and including LIS recommendations, has been pulled together into one document located at http://lis.luther.edu/sustainability.

Wish you could retrieve your voice mail messages from your e-mail or the web? Now you can! Come to a demonstration of Call Pilot Desktop Messaging in Borlaug on Thursday, Oct. 29 from 2:30-3:00 or Monday, Nov. 9 from 11:30-12:00. You can reserve a spot at http://lis.luther.edu/learn/schedule or just drop in. To learn about Desktop Messaging, go to http://lis.luther.edu/learn/desktopmessaging.

Network switches in the CFA will be upgraded over Fall Break. The wired network will be down on the east side of the building Monday (10/19) from 8am until approximately 11am and the west side of the building Tuesday (10/20) from 8am until approximately 11am. The wireless network will not be affected by this upgrade.

The controller for the wireless network in Main, Library, Valders, Sampson, Ylvisaker and Norby House has been made redundant. This will improve reliability of the wireless network. In the event that one controller crashes the other controller will take over management of the network and keep the network functioning.

The campus fiber optic network backbone has been extended to Gjerset House. This upgrade has allowed us to provide an improved wired network, and to extend coverage of the campus wireless network to include Gjerset House.

Google is aware of an issue that is currently affecting some users and making their Norse Mail inaccessible. You can find updates on the status of this issue at: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm=1&di=1&hl=en

We manage our internet connection with a piece of equipment called a NetEqualizer. The NetEqualizer’s job is to ensure that all of our internet users share the available bandwidth in a fair manner. One way it does this is to limit the number of simultaneous network connections that each computer can make.

I am planning to do some maintenance work on part of our wireless network from 5AM until 7AM on 9/17/09. The wireless network covering Ylvisaker, Norby House, Main, Library, Sampson, and Valders will be unavailable during this time.

As a new academic year begins and students and faculty return to campus, LIS would like to remind you of two useful tools to reset your passwords. Your NorseKey and Datatel passwords expire every 180 days. You can reset them yourself using the following tools.

On NorseKey.luther.edu you will be asked to set your security questions if you have not already completed them to authenticate yourself so that you can use the “Forgot My NorseKey” option to reset your NorseKey.